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Piperade Salad With Olives

This colorful dish plays with the Basque saute of red and green bell peppers. The Sherry wine vinegar gives the salad a delicious sweet-tangy edge.

Courses: Salads
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

1/3 cup 78mlExtra-virgin olive oil
2   Garlic cloves - thinly sliced
1   Red onion - halved, sliced (large)
2   Red bell peppers - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large)
1   Yellow bell pepper - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large)
1   Green bell pepper - cut 1/2"-wide strips (large)
2 tablespoons 30mlSherry wine vinegar
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozCoarsely-chopped pitted Kalamata olives
  = ( or other brine-cured black olives)
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Heat olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced garlic and stir 30 seconds. Add red onion slices and saute until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes.

Add all peppers and saute until crisp-tender, about 7 minutes.

Stir in Sherry wine vinegar, then olives. Season salad generously with salt and pepper. Cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before serving.)

This recipe yields 8 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, August 2002

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